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Nicola Smith

Canberra

Reporter and Presenter at BBC

Politics Reporter at The Nightly

Covering politics, with one eye on the Indo-Pacific for @thenightlyau. Previously in 🇰🇷, 🇹🇼, 🇮🇳 for Telegraph/Sunday Times. [email protected]

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Articles

  • 4 days ago | thewest.com.au | Nicola Smith

    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese continues to dismiss demands from the United States for Australia to hike defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP to counter the growing risk of conflict in the Indo-Pacific region. Pete Hegseth urged Defence Minister Richard Marles to make a significant boost to defence investment “as soon as possible” during a weekend Singapore security summit where the US Defence Secretary sounded the alarm over China’s expanding military ambitions.

  • 4 days ago | thenightly.com.au | Nicola Smith

    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday continues to dismiss demands from the United States for Australia to hike defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP to counter the growing risk of conflict in the Indo-Pacific region. Pete Hegseth urged Defence Minister Richard Marles to make a significant boost to defence investment “as soon as possible” during a weekend Singapore security summit where the US Defence Secretary sounded the alarm over China’s expanding military ambitions.

  • 1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Nicola Smith

    There’s a scene in the confronting Netflix drama Adolescence that Education Minister Jason Clare admits still haunts him. The harrowing four-part show depicts how an insidious and misogynist online subculture conditions baby-faced teenager Jamie before the murder of his classmate Katie in a hate crime.

  • 1 week ago | home.dartmouth.edu | Nicola Smith

    BodyFive Dartmouth students have been selected for internships and scholarships sponsored by the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation, a federal agency which fosters environmental leadership and state and federal legislation in order to strengthen Native nations. The late U.S. Rep. Morris Udall, D-Arizona, served in Congress from 1961-1991. His brother Stewart Udall, was also a member of Congress and then served as secretary of the interior from 1961 to 1969.

  • 1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Nicola Smith

    Australia’s foreign ministry is closely following a US government move to ban foreign nationals it deems to be censoring Americans – a new policy that could target officials regulating US tech companies. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the policy on Wednesday as a measure to protected America’s “cherished right” of free speech.

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6 May 25

RT @narendramodi: Spoke with my friend @AlboMP to personally congratulate him on his party’s historic victory. We agreed to work together w…

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5 May 25

RT @caitlynrintoul: Who will replace Peter Dutton? ‘Hard, fast and ambitious’ hero needed to lead Liberals out of wreckage @westaustralian…

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4 May 25

RT @ZelenskyyUa: I spoke with Prime Minister of Australia @AlboMP. I congratulated him on a convincing election victory and thanked him fo…